Quotes About Loss Of A Parent

#1. Nobody can prepare you for the loss of a parent.

Samantha Bond

#2. He knew exactly what it was like to lose a child. And that fact wouldn't matter in the least in this circumstance. There could be no commiseration among such people despite the seeming commonality of loss, because it was actually each parent's totally unique hell.

David Baldacci

#3. Being a parent is joyful, but it's also haunted by the specter of loss.

Richard Beck

#4. There is no knowing how or why dread comes on a parent. Of course, many times apprehension arises when there is no reason for it at all. And it comes most often to the parents of only children, parents who have indulged in black dreams of loss.

John Steinbeck

#5. The loss of my parents was definitely the hardest thing I've had to endure. I just felt really dead inside for a long time.

Jonathan Bennett

#6. Too much aggression and work will move what you desire further away.

Bryant McGill

#7. There is no greater grief, than when a parent losses a child.

Asa Don Brown

#8. Don't ever call me adorable again. Puppies are adorable.

Dean Koontz

#9. Tried to be faultless as a parent, but still she worries that in the end, all her love for her daughter will not compensate for the loss she suffered as a baby

Shilpi Somaya Gowda

#10. If watching your child die is a parent's worst nightmare, imagine having to tell your other child that his sister is dead ... Although I am certain that he cried, that we all cried, what I remember more is how we collapsed into each other, as if the weight of our loss literally crushed us.

Ann Hood

#11. Facebook may not only propagate cyber-loneliness but exacerbate the pain of loss that estranged family members feel when they hear only indirectly, through a third-party posting, news of a child or parent with whom they have not spoken in years.

Eugene Kennedy

#12. You start reading C.S. Lewis, then you're reading G.K. Chesterton, then you're a Catholic.

Ross Douthat

#13. The unmarried woman seldom escapes a widowhood of the spirit. There is sure to be some one, parent, brother, sister, friend, more comfortable to her than the day, with whom her life is so entwined that the wrench of parting leaves a torn void never entirely healed or filled ...

Charlotte Mary Yonge

#14. The process of grieving any loss is dependent upon your relationship to the person.

Asa Don Brown

#15. No matter how much and how often - 'things' will never compensate for loss or absence ... no matter how guilty a parent feels.

T.F. Hodge

#16. There are words like 'orphan', 'widow' and 'widower' in all languages. But there is no word in any language to describe a parent who loses a child. How does one describe the pain of 'ultimate bereavement'! (Page 50)

Neena Verma

#17. I never thought I would write an autobiography, probably because my first novel, Go Now, is really all drawn from my life, even though it's more about the psychology going on.

Richard Hell

#18. Amazing grace; blessed life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#19. Why don't they live in Illusions?' suggested the Humbug. 'It's much prettier.'
'Many of them do,' he answered, walking in the direction of the forest once again, 'but it's just as bad to live in a place where what you do see isn't there as it is to live in one where what you don't see is.

Norton Juster

#20. The human mind is not capable of comprehending or containing this world's agony.' Sidney Grice said, 'or we should all go mad.

M.R.C. Kasasian

#21. Every parent who loses a child finds a way to laugh again. The timbre begins to fade. The edge dulls. The hurt lessens. Every love is carved from loss. Mine was. Yours is. Your great-great-
great-children's will be. But we learn to live with that love.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#22. A wife who loses a husband is called a widow. A husband who loses a wife is called a widower. A child who loses his parents is called an orphan. There is no word for a parent who loses a child. That's how awful the loss is.

Jay Neugeboren

#23. In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who lose a child.

Jodi Picoult

#24. ... my joints ache with fatigue, my dried up body trembles toward its own destruction in turmoils of which I dare not become fully conscious, in my head are astonishing convulsions.

Franz Kafka

#25. My training in music and composition then led me to a kind of musical language process in which, for example, the sound of the words I play with has to expose their true meaning against their will so to speak.

Elfriede Jelinek

#26. I think my blog is fairly circumspect and elliptical. I've written personal essays, but they are short and to the point: in and out, and that's that.

Kate Christensen

#27. Disney features, especially the early ones, were horror movies with cute critters: Greek tragedies with a hummable chorus. Forcing children to confront the loss of home, parent, friends and fondest pets, these films imposed shock therapy on four-year-olds.

Richard Corliss